My Shimano bottom bracket started clicking a while back on every power stroke. I took it out and regreased it - solved for a couple of kilometres. I tried PTFE tape, solved it for about 50 kilometers
In the middle of the dragon ride after going up a very long climb with my bottom bracket clicking on every single pedal stroke I decided when I got the top of the hill to order a wheels manufacturing bottom bracket. Apparently this will solve all of my ills. I will let you know
Has anyone else had problems with Shimano bottom brackets clicking? Really really irritating. Any other suggestions other than PTFE and a torque wrench ?
Sure it's not one of the pedals? Had exactly that recently.
You make a very good point but every time I took the bottom bracket out greased, or PTFE there's problem would solve itself for a couple of kilometers. Then eventually it would come back. I have just spotted that the plastic spacer in the original Shimano bottom bracket does have a direction. I have no idea which direction it was in my bike and I'm wondering if I had it the wrong way round. Anyway I've just put a £300 bottom bracket in there so let's just hope of throwing money at the problem can fix it!
Has anyone else had problems with Shimano bottom brackets clicking?
Nope. I've scrapped two MT800 bottom brackets in the last month, both with c.6000km on them. Neither was making any noise. I only realised the bearings were going/had gone because the cranks waggled when I gripped them by hand...
Last time I had that kind of noise was last year on the climb up Great Dun Fell. Blasting GT85 through the ME700 pedals' cleat retention mechanism cured it. I'd certainly have tried swapping pedals before spending £300 on a new bb.
My old bike did that. The BB shell was cracked. Good luck! 😉
£300 for a BB ! 😳😳😳
Clicking BBs normally mean the bearing is on the way out. It's fairly common and easily resolved by installing a new BB for another few years of satisfactory usage. Cost - about £19.
Clicking BBs normally mean the bearing is on the way out. It's fairly common and easily resolved by installing a new BB for another few years of satisfactory usage. Cost - about £19.
True, it can cost £19. Unless you have an Italian bottom bracket and you want to put something with ceramic bearings in there. The bike cost considerably more than 19 pounds so I don't mind treating it 🙂
I had this with a Shimano BB52, drove me mad!
Recently replaced with an MT800 and it appears to have sorted it.
